Frenkie de Jong discusses injury and career

How are you, Culés? Welcome to this interview with the

first-team player,

Frenkie de Jong. Frenkie, how are you? How are you feeling?

Well, I'm fine,

um, but I feel like there's a lot of noise around

me, a lot of

news that is—

that is false and all that, and it's bothering me.

And that's why I'm here, to clear up a couple of

things.

And I've been at the club for—oh, I've been here for seven years.

It's always been my dream to play for Barcelona, uh, and

it still is. Uh, I still have dreams to fulfill at

Barça, we have

big goals

and, well, today I hope I can clear up

a couple of things so that, so that it will be perfectly clear to

everyone.

All right, then, let's take it step by step. Regarding the injury,

how are you doing in that regard?

Well, I'm really pissed off, it bothers me a lot because

What I love most is playing football, and especially for Barcelona and the national team.

I mean, then, if I'm injured, it really bothers me.

I mean, then, if I'm injured, it really bothers me.

Besides, it was an injury—

I think I've been very unlucky there, because it was

an accident where someone fell on top of me,

and I was left a little banged up at the World Cup.

Ah, I also want to explain it to everyone

so they know what happened.

I had an accident during training, um,

someone fell on me, uh, and I had a minor issue in my knee and

we ran tests and everything, and

and they found there was, there was something minor. Uh,

everyone knows about it. They say I can keep playing, that I will

be uncomfortable and in pain,

uh, but that I can keep playing.

And I also asked, uh, and they reassured me

that it couldn't get any worse. So, I keep going

on playing because, you know? I love playing.

The World Cup is a dream. I would always do everything to play.

I've done it many times at Barça too, and

I'm still playing there. Well, I'm still playing, well, the World Cup ends up

being awful because we were eliminated.

Ah, I'm in contact with the club. I want

to come back, come back for tests, to see if everything is all right.

We do a test, and it shows that

that, that the injury

is now more serious than it was when we did, uh, the

scans there in the United States.

That is really hard because I didn't expect it, nobody expected it.

And well, that, that's really shitty because now I have to

be,

uh, I have to be out and I have to do the

recovery, and I didn't

expect that.

Ah,

and what I love most, as I said, is playing soccer, and if I can't do it,

well, it really pisses me off.